[PATCH] devargs: Fix crash due to global devargs uninitailization from secondary process

madhuker.mythri at oracle.com madhuker.mythri at oracle.com
Mon Feb 14 18:08:11 CET 2022


From: Madhuker Mythri <madhuker.mythri at oracle.com>

Failsafe pmd started crashing with global devargs syntax as devargs is
not memset to zero. Access it to in rte_devargs_parse() resulted in a
crash when called from secondary process.

Bugzilla Id: 933

Signed-off-by: Madhuker Mythri <madhuker.mythri at oracle.com>
---
 lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
index 69004b0a2d..ad60febad9 100644
--- a/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
+++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_common_devargs.c
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ rte_devargs_parse(struct rte_devargs *da, const char *dev)
 
 	if (da == NULL)
 		return -EINVAL;
+	memset(da, 0, sizeof(*da));
 
 	/* First parse according global device syntax. */
 	if (rte_devargs_layers_parse(da, dev) == 0) {
-- 
2.32.0.windows.1



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